"We expressed our reservations about the Polish law by focusing on the article of this text which obstructs the search for the truth and an open historical debate," the Israeli foreign ministry said.

Before the meeting, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Bartosz Cichocki said his delegation was "committed to join our efforts to promote truth about the Holocaust and the Polish-Jewish centuries-old relationship".

"We are here open and ready to answer all the questions and clarify whatever is left to be clarified with regard to the anti-defamation law recently amended in Poland," he said.

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The law has angered many Holocaust survivors in Israel

The law states that "whoever accuses, publicly and against the facts, the Polish nation, or the Polish state, of being responsible or complicit in the Nazi crimes committed by the Third German Reich… shall be subject to a fine or a penalty of imprisonment of up to three years".

It adds the caveat that a person "is not committing a crime if he or she commits such an act as part of artistic or scientific activities".